| crevice |
a narrow opening, as in vertical rock or a wall; crack; fissure. |
| cross |
a symbol or structure formed by a vertical line or pole intersecting a horizontal one. [1/16 definitions] |
| cross hairs |
the two fine hairs, wires, or the like, one vertical and the other horizontal, that cross at right angles in an optical instrument such as a gunsight and that aid the viewer in aiming or focusing accurately. |
| crossword |
a puzzle in which the player must guess words from numbered clues and enter them in the correspondingly numbered series of vertical or horizontal squares; crossword puzzle. |
| crossword puzzle |
a puzzle in which the player must guess words from numbered clues and enter them in the correspondingly numbered series of vertical or horizontal squares. |
| doorjamb |
one of the vertical sides of a doorframe; doorpost. |
| double bar |
two heavy vertical lines on a musical staff used to indicate the end of a piece or of a major subdivision of a piece. |
| double-breasted |
having the sides overlap each other by a wide margin on the breast or front, and usu. having a double vertical row of buttons, as a jacket or coat. (Cf. single-breasted.) [1/2 definitions] |
| double dagger |
a sign consisting of a small vertical line crossed by two smaller horizontal lines, used as a reference mark, as for a footnote; diesis. |
| downspout |
a vertical drainpipe that carries rainwater or melted snow from a roof or gutter to the ground. |
| elevator |
a machine which raises or lifts, esp. a platform or enclosure in a vertical shaft, with its equipment and parts, used to raise and lower people or goods from one level to another in a building. [1/3 definitions] |
| erect |
not spreading or inclined; vertical. [3/7 definitions] |
| fagoting |
a technique for trimming or decorating cloth with crisscross stitches across an open seam, or with vertical threads tied at midpoint in bundles spaced across a section with no horizontal threads. |
| fastigiate |
vertical and almost parallel, as some tree branches. [1/2 definitions] |
| fipple flute |
a recorder or other vertical flute that has a slitted wedgelike plug, or fipple, in the mouthpiece. |
| flageolet |
a small vertical flute with a fipple, four finger holes, and two thumb holes. [1/2 definitions] |
| flute |
one of a number of vertical concave channels or grooves, incised esp. on architectural columns and the like. [1/8 definitions] |
| gibbet |
a structure built for execution by hanging and for the public exhibition of those hanged, consisting of a vertical post to which a horizontal beam is attached at the top; gallows. [1/2 definitions] |
| Greek Cross |
a cross in which the horizontal and vertical bars are of equal length and intersect at their midpoints at right angles. |
| gros point |
a large needlepoint stitch across two horizontal and two vertical threads. [1/2 definitions] |
| gules |
the color red in heraldic arms, indicated in an engraving by vertical lines. |